(Audio/Video) I'm almost convinced that @JColeNC won't catch 'a break'. Mr. Nice Watch..

I usually hesitate to give my ALL OUT OPINIONS on here when I am simply posting up a track but I felt that is was necessary here. I get ALL TYPES OF QUESTIONS ABOUT MY THOUGHTS ON J.Cole. Most times I don't say much. I am STILL NOT HERE TO CHANGE FOLKS MINDS ABOUT HIM EITHER. Either you like him or you don't. I can't change that.

At this point everyone has put the song up so that is not what this post is all about....I'm sure YOU HAVE HEARD IT. Positive even. I have listened to it about 10 times or so in the last two hours.  I don't know what folks want from the kid. Now I am not saying this song just the BEST SONG IN THE WORLD or anything. It is not. It isn't 'trash' though either though.

Now I think I have already spoken about the fact that I don't like when he does the rapping, the hook and the beats due to his monotone nature. That 'nature' isn't conducive to the 'Pop Star/Rap Star' numbers folks are expecting from him due to his association to with Jay-Z. That said, he did a good job here. Beat started off 'interesting' but quickly found its way, his flow was NICE and the hook, while done in that signature style, worked pretty well. I DO wish he would have found someone else to do it but maybe he didn't trust anyone else to deliver it the way he wanted. He got his point across though. Jay gave him a nice verse. If you thought Jay was going to go ALL OUT on his protege's album, you are a fool. Why WOULD HE? That would be suicidal for his artist. (Yeah..yeah...yeah...Jay has fallen off...yada...yada...-_-) He came in and gave him a good run. I'm not mad at it.


It is funny to hear folks say 'The days of a bunch of hit records on the actual album' are over yet they expect.........just that. I don't know if I ever 'expected' this kid to just have a 'slew of number one hits'. I was just happy that a 'regular kid' with skills actually got a chance to showcase them. I think people either have missed the point of why they were initially happy when this kid got noticed or folks have articulated why it is they 'want him to win'. In the World of rap, where you either have to be the SUPER NERD or the SUPER TOUGH NIGGA, he falls in the middle. I will take blame for that lack of articulation as well as I haven't done a very good job 'explaining' why it is I do root for him. Some think with me it is because he is from NC. No. There are PLENTY OF MCS in NC who I don't 'root for'. J.Cole isn't even the BEST MC in NC. Hell, if I start to REALLY give it some thought, he might be top Five. Real spit. At the same time though, he is one of the BEST YOUNG MCS in that region and after Peter Pablo, no one has ever really had a true machine behind them to make a REAL IMPACT on the radio. Not on hip hop...(See what I did there?) The radio. He has that chance. I just don't know if he is THE ONE TO DO IT. That just isn't his 'style'. It just isn't. Hope I am wrong. I thought his label squandered it chance when that Miquel joint SKYROCKETED OFF. That was a hit. That is another thing that is working against him. Folks who aren't 'music nerds' first REAL TASTE OF HIM was that 'All I Want Is You" joint and it seems like he isn't making 'another song like that ON PURPOSE. Which is a mistake. He BETTER have another joint like that on his album (I haven't heard it...) or folks will 'be disappointed'.


So here we are. With this leaked song that I feel like was leaked as a 'Shut the f@ck up' to the folks who were saying 'That song doesn't exist...'. Is it enough? Only time will time. Again, because the stakes are so HIGH, folks are already nitpicking it apart to me. As we speak......